A five-year-old boy Aryan was brought out from the borewell, located 150 feet deep, at Dausa in Rajasthan after a 57-hour rescue operation. This rescue operation has been an effort by different rescue teams who worked in extremely stressful conditions throughout the ordeal.

He was pulled out in an unconscious state, a green corridor was created to take Aryan to a hospital in an ambulance equipped with an advanced life support system. However, he was declared dead.

How did he fall into the borewell?

Aryan was playing in a field in Kalikhad village, Dausa, on December 9 when he accidentally fell into the uncovered borewell at around 3 PM. An hour later, rescue efforts began as authorities rushed to the site to initiate the operation.

To rescue Aryan, teams from the National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force, and Civil Defence joined hands. Rescuers encountered several obstacles, which included 160 feet of water and difficulty in tracing Aryan's movement under his clothes because of the steam.

A parallel tunnel was dug to reach Aryan safely, using high equipment, such as an XCMG 180 piling rig, earthmovers, tractors, and ropes. Oxygen was fed through a pipe to the child throughout the rescue period. Temperatures in the region were falling to 8° Celsius, and rescuers battled both time and the weather to save the child.

The "umbrella technique," used successfully in the case of the rescue in the Uttarkashi tunnel in November 2023, was used first, which proved to be not fruitful either. The two teams targeted digging the parallel pit until they could find the child.

Official statement 

“The boy has been taken out and rushed to hospital,” confirmed an official at the site. Rajasthan BJP leader and minister Kirodi Lal Meena visited the location and emphasized the need for stricter regulations to prevent such incidents.

“These incidents happen across the country. There is direction from the government but no law. A law should be made regarding covering borewells,” Meena said, focusing on the recurring nature of such accidents.

In September, a similar incident occurred in Dausa, where a two-year-old girl was rescued from a 35-foot borewell after 18 hours of effort by NDRF and SDRF teams.